David Franklin
Self Employed
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolDavid Franklin is a cybersecurity-focused software engineer and Army veteran with a decade of hands-on experience building secure backend systems, custom SIEM and ETL tooling, and ML-driven anomaly detection. He blends production engineering skills from roles at VMware and Boeing with applied research in deep learning, LLM security, and prompt-injection vulnerability analysis. Comfortable across Python, C#, TensorFlow/PyTorch, and cloud platforms, he has delivered cryptography utilities, security patches, and CI/CD pipelines while practicing offensive and defensive techniques in lab environments and CTFs. His background managing large teams and mission-critical operations in the Army informs a pragmatic, metrics-driven approach to incident investigation, OSINT, and digital forensics. Based in Seattle, he mentors and trains others, pairing practical software craftsmanship with a research mindset that surfaces subtle ML security risks before they reach production.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) Software Engineering at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Github Skills (9)
javascript6
backend6
jekyll6
react6
mongodb5
operation5
nodejs5
css5
frontend4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
dave5801/data-structures
Nov 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:36 PRs, 108 pushes, 9 branches in 3 months
dave5801/Portfolio
Sep 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:65 PRs, 119 pushes, 12 branches in 6 months
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